War... it's this year's must-have accessory

I am still getting messages from ordinary people inside Syria, appalled at the inaccurate picture of events there being peddled by Western media. But the heedless rush to war continues.

The truth obviously doesn’t matter much once war becomes fashionable.

Hillary Clinton, the American Secretary of State, has been caught out using her respected office to make alarmist claims that Russia is supplying Syria with new helicopter gunships. She gets away with it because it is modish to believe in interfering in Syria.

It’s so modish that the feared Anna Wintour, editor of American Vogue, has spotted the trend. Now that Syria is officially the world’s worst tyranny, she has swung the world of hemlines, heels and lip gloss behind the cause of war.

Ms Wintour has icily disowned an embarrassing pro-Syrian article that her magazine ran last year, in which the attractive Asma Assad, wife of the Syrian president, pictured right, was billed as a ‘rose in the desert’ and described as ‘the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies’.

She isn’t a magnetic rose any more. She is the wife of a brutal dictator. How fickle fashion is.
This sort of drivel almost makes me yearn for the good old days when all we got were hysterical lies about non-existent weapons of mass destruction.

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